List of things I found in the Litchfield Historical Society as an intern years ago that I insisted on imbuing with a deep symbolic meaning:
1) A dance card with "Alas, Headache!" written in pretty script across the blank lines for dance partners
2) A trick photograph not unlike the photograph on the cover of this book, of a man wearing a straw hat and stripey suit.
3) A turn of the century doctor's kit. Largest tool: saw.
4) The wedding dress of a woman spurned.
5) A honeymoon photograph. The bride and groom sat on either side of a bench, and the bride's mother sat in the center between them.
6) Daguerreotypes of dead babies.